About 10 homes are believed to have been lost in the Seaton area, where a man's body was found in a burnt-out car on Friday.

Seaton was one of the townships worst hit by the fire that has already burned through 55,000 hectares.

Victoria's Country Fire Authority (CFA) says the fire is being controlled.

Incident controller Ben Rankin says some residents are returning for the first time to find out whether their homes are still standing.

"There has been quite a bit of interest, obviously with the Seaton area being impacted by fire, people want to get in there and inspect their properties and assess the damage and get what support is available to recover," he said.

Mr Rankin says crews have been working to remove debris so that road blocks could be lifted.

"A lot of it has been fire damaged and we wanted to make sure that dangerous trees were removed and not going to impact anyone who was travelling the road," he said.

"There was quite a bit of work had to be done just to ensure the safety of people using the road."